edit

英 ['edɪt] 美['ɛdɪt]

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第三人称单数: edits;过去式: edited;过去分词: edited;现在分词: editing;

edit 编辑

e-, 向外。-dit, 给予，词源同date, donate.

edit: edit: [18] Etymologically, someone who edits a newspaper ‘gives it out’, or in effect ‘publishes’ it. And that in fact is how the word was first used in English: when William Enfield wrote in his 1791 translation of Brucker’s Historia critica philosophiae that a certain author ‘wrote many philosophical treatises which have never been edited’, he meant ‘published’.

This usage comes directly from ēditus, the past participle of Latin ēdere ‘put out, exhibit, publish’, which was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and dare ‘put, give’ (source of English date, donate, etc). In its modern application, ‘prepare for publication’, it is mainly a back-formation from editor [17], which acquired this particular sense in the 18th century. (French éditeur still means ‘publisher’, and the term editor is used in that sense in some British publishing houses.)
=> date, donate
edit (v.): 1791, "to publish," perhaps a back-formation from editor, or from French éditer (itself a back-formation from édition) or from Latin editus, past participle of edere "give out, put out, publish" (see edition). Meaning "to supervise for publication" is from 1793. Meaning "make revisions to a manuscript, etc.," is from 1885. Related: Edited; editing. As a noun, by 1960, "an act of editing."

2. Three CBS cameramen were on site to shoot and edit taped reports.: 3名哥伦比亚广播公司的摄影记者在现场拍摄并编辑录像报道。

3. When you edit the tape you can take out the giggles.: 你编辑录音时，可以把咯咯笑的部分删了。